EP93 Public Policy Symposium on Public Health 2020 with Pavel Shirley & Sonia Wiecek

On November 14 and 15, 2020, the Public Policy Symposium on Public Health was presented through a collaboration between NYU GPH and the NYU Politics Society. During the two-day virtual symposium, students from across New York City gathered to present and debate policy proposals on various topics regarding public health. Participants were tasked with preparing creative policy memos addressing topics such as Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Mental Health, Prescription Drugs and Opioids, and Gun Violence. Our guests in this episode, NYU undergraduate students Sonia Wiecek and Pavel Shirley were both attendees of the event (Pavel was also a planning committee member). Sonia is a Junior Majoring in Public Policy with a minor in Public Health and Pavel is a Freshman studying Public Administration. The Public Policy Symposium's committee held various events leading up to the Symposium to prepare participants to write about and debate these policy proposals, and to encourage them to think critically about public health. In conversation, Sonia and Pavel provided an in-depth look at the debated topics of national healthcare and insurance as well as housing. They discussed the current state of debate on those topics, what reform and solutions might look like for those issues, and the intersection of the fields of public health and public policy. To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.